So what's your "Grail" knife?

xxwjtxx said:
Hey Nathan,
Mainly the handle style; I would LOVE a woodchuck with a HB/BC style handle -- the ergos just work better for me. I've had 2-3 PHENOMENAL woodchucks, all of which wound up on the market due to me not 100% digging the handle. I would also like to see a bit of a wider blade (I'm almost thinking somewhere in santoku territory).

None the less, a guy can dream -- right? ;)
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Cimarron56 said:
Will, now you're talking about what I call a "Foodchuck". I'd love to see one in 1/8" CPM 154 or even in O1 for that matter. The blade needs to be almost 3/4" wider with no guard. I think it could be made in 2" stock, but it would be tight.
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I'd take a FoodChuck.
 
I think I have my "grails"
Took a while to get these 3 in S35VN

And the Camp (with the matching guardless Ladyfinger)


This Hunter is the only one that I might let go, but only because it isn't tapered. Otherwise I wouldn't change it at all



If I could only have one then a 5/32" Hunter in S35VN with a tapered tang and micarta handles (tux or antique ivory) would be it.
 
That is what I need, just tweaked a bit! Apparently, it already exists!! :eek:

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I call dibs on the first one, should this pattern ever be "found" around the shop again :D
 
I would like to find a 4" bladed (keb, bf, kephart - in that order of preferance), 1/8" O1, heavily spaulted, scandi, with synthetic handles - dark/earth toned, but with lime or orange liners. Anybody got an extra?
 
sonorantree said:
I would like to find a 4" bladed (keb, bf, kephart - in that order of preferance), 1/8" O1, heavily spaulted, scandi, with synthetic handles - dark/earth toned, but with lime or orange liners. Anybody got an extra?
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ML knives makes great Kephart style knives. He's a good fella to work with.
 
I changed my mind. My grail knife is Andy's starry night Duke. That thing is beyond ridiculous, beyond even ridonkulous, and into the realm of the absurdly beautiful.
 
I would love a Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM-154 for a designated Bird and Trout knife. (But O1 would work to! :D)
 
A 1/8" scandi ground 3-Finger Joe in Electric Orange Shadetree with mosaic pins and insane spalting.
 
MajorD said:
I would love a Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM-154 for a designated Bird and Trout knife. (But O1 would work to! :D)
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Haha... I just opened this up to say something similar. But I'll get more specific.

Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM 154, guardless, with a G10 handle - either Slate G10 with black liners and a white pinstripe, or Jade G10 with natural liners and a white pinstripe.
 
MajorD said:
I would love a Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM-154 for a designated Bird and Trout knife. (But O1 would work to! :D)
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Kirkwood said:
Haha... I just opened this up to say something similar. But I'll get more specific.

Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM 154, guardless, with a G10 handle - either Slate G10 with black liners and a white pinstripe, or Jade G10 with natural liners and a white pinstripe.
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That would make a mean steak knife as well.
 
I'll take a Kephart in 5/32" tapered CPM154 with black liners, blue pinstripes, and black canvas micarta scales. Nothing too fancy.
 
I'd be happy for something along the lines of this to pop up AND be on my sharking game.

Camp Nessmuk
Stainless (01 ok here too) nice texturing (or spalting) on the somewhere 3/4 to near full height grind
Tapered tang 5/32nds (3/16th ok here too)
Black canvas Bolster
Ironwood (like Wills), Blackwood, or Burlap (Ruby Red, Evergreen, Oreo, Sapphire)
Single beauty mark if burlap
 
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Kirkwood said:
Haha... I just opened this up to say something similar. But I'll get more specific.

Ladyfinger in 3/32" CPM 154, guardless, with a G10 handle - either Slate G10 with black liners and a white pinstripe, or Jade G10 with natural liners and a white pinstripe.
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Great minds !! :D Nathan you right as well about it being a great steak knife!
 
Nathan's Camp Nessie. Enough said! I'll take it's evil twin with even more epic spalting . . . I guess it could have a different colored pinstripe so we could tell ours apart ;)
 
xxwjtxx said:
That is what I need, just tweaked a bit! Apparently, it already exists!! :eek:

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Will, After some serious consideration, it seems inappropriate to put the label "FoodChuck" on that knife. Because of its humped back, it would have to be called a SantuMuck.
 
Cimarron56 said:
Will, After some serious consideration, it seems inappropriate to put the label "FoodChuck" on that knife. Because of its humped back, it would have to be called a SantuMuck.
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Close ;) Andy referred to it as a Santokumuk in a 2009 thread in another forum -- there's just something about a wide wharncliff style blade in thick(er) steel that is just cool to me! While the Santokumuk was designed to be a kitchen only blade, something between this and a woodchuck would be pretty freaking cool !!
 
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